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16 AUGUST

1884: Hugo Gernsback is born
1920: Charles Bukowski is born
1938: Robert Johnson dies
1956: Bela Lugosi’s dead
1977: Elvis Presley dies

15 AUGUST

1877: Hello? Hello?
1912: Julia Child is born
1925: Oscar Peterson is born [cjam]
1944: Linda Ellerbee is born
1967: René Magritte dies
1967: Picasso’s gift to Chicago is unveiled

14 AUGUST

1900: An international force puts down the Boxer Rebellion
1950: Gary Larson is born
1956: Bertolt Brecht dies
2003: Massive power cuts cause chaos across the eastern United States and Canada

13 AUGUST

1899: Alfred Hitchcock is born [interview] [vid: tour]
1945: Herbert George Wells dies
1961: Berlin is divided

12 AUGUST

1827: William Blake dies [digitext]

1869: Norton I dissolves and abolishes the Democratic and Republican parties

1931: William Goldman is born

1981: IBM’s first personal computer is introduced

1992: John Cage dies [vid: 4′33″]

11 AUGUST

1833: Robert Green Ingersoll is born

1892: Hugh MacDiarmid is born [audio]

1950: Steve Wozniak is born [interview]

1984: “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” [mp3]

10 AUGUST

1519: Magellan’s five ships leave Seville to attempt to circumnavigate the Earth

1990: The Magellan spacecraft starts mapping Venus

2002: Séamas Cain’s Seaturtles is performed at dawn by Mary Roe O’Neill at the sea-level megalith of Creevykeel in Sligo

9 AUGUST

1842: Herman Melville escapes from the Taipi valley cannibals (?)

1914: Tove Jansson is born

1922: Philip Larkin is born

1930: Betty Boop makes her first appearance, in Dizzy Dishes [vid]

1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

1969: Sharon Tate and four other people are found murdered at Tate’s residence in Los Angeles

1971: Northern Ireland activates […]

8 AUGUST

1809: Ueda Akinari dies [Ugetsu] [English]

1879: Emiliano Zapata is born

1907: Benny Carter is born [symphonyinriffs]

1974: President Nixon announces that he will resign from office

1975: Cannonball Adderley dies

7 AUGUST

1876: Mata Hari is born [photos]

1903: Louis Leakey is born

1934: The US Court of Appeals upholds Judge Woolsey’s earlier ruling allowing James Joyce’s Ulysses into the country

1957: Oliver Hardy dies

1958: Arthur Miller is cleared of contempt of Congress

1964: The US Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with […]